Lexicon

Load Shedding

Kind: technique

Layer: Correctness Core

Record: lexicon:load-shedding

Canonical: Lexicon

A technique for refusing part of the incoming work when load passes capacity, so the work already accepted completes.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Cancellation and before Bounded Queue.

Category

  • Error Handling / Resilience

Refactors

  • Missing Backpressure

Linked from

  • Anti-patterns